Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Bixby has constructed miniature houses, churches, barns, silos, and backhouses to a scale of one-100th regular size. Placed at a distance of 50 to 90 yards from the pieces, these targets will look the same as their actual counter-parts at ten thousand yards' distance...
Truce. Temporarily, at least, Labor was even inclined to regard Franklin Roosevelt himself with anxiety. Well did the President know that the dockets of lower courts throughout the land were sagging with NRA violation cases, that work was being bootlegged in the U. S. on a scale comparable with whiskey during Prohibition.** For this and other reasons he was unable to agree that A. F. of L.'s 30-hr, week, for which there was growing Congressional sentiment, was operable...
...limit in the relations between States." Only international organization will save the world from calamity. "The same causes that produced war in 1914 are still operative, and, unless checked by international control of investment and of raw material, they will inevitably produce the same effect, but on a larger scale...
Author Samuel clothes his Odyssean story in rich realism and, on a much less ambitious scale, his picture of masculine Manhattan is reminiscent of Joyce's Dublin. Some of his characters are drawn from life: Manhattanites may recognize the portrait of Alfred Richard Orage, onetime lecturer, now editor of the London New English Weekly, who appears here under the pseudonym of "Storm...
...Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution. It had been everything that individual likes and dislikes may choose to call it. But it had been on the grand scale. It had not been petty. Here I was assisting in a petit-bourgeois revolution with all the pretentiousness and some of the ridiculousness inseparable from every petit-bourgeois revolution...